GIAKONDA SOLAR SCHOOLS LibreOffice series Writer ECDL tutorial Version 3 Howard Kirkman Written for the Writer element of the ECDL extra course run at GiaKonda Solar Schools training days. Files necessary to go with this book are found on the resources page of www.giakonda.org.uk LibreOffice series GiaKonda Solar Schools Getting started with Writer. Contents Contents................................................................................................................................................2 Welcome to our first session..................................................................................................................4 The Writer Screen..................................................................................................................................5 Getting Help...........................................................................................................................................8 Editing Documents.................................................................................................................................9 Deleting and Moving text...................................................................................................................9 Drag and Drop..................................................................................................................................11 Undo and Redo................................................................................................................................12 Basic Formatting..............................................................................................................................12 Paragraph Formatting (more detail).................................................................................................14 Find and Replace..............................................................................................................................16 Finding.............................................................................................................................................16 Replacing.........................................................................................................................................16 Using Tabs........................................................................................................................................17 Page Layout..........................................................................................................................................18 Margins............................................................................................................................................18 Page Breaks......................................................................................................................................19 Size and Orientation.........................................................................................................................19 Size...................................................................................................................................................19 Orientation......................................................................................................................................19 Columns...........................................................................................................................................20 Breaks..............................................................................................................................................20 Hyphenation....................................................................................................................................20 Adding Objects to Documents.............................................................................................................22 Inserting Headers and Footers.........................................................................................................22 Inserting Pictures and Clipart...........................................................................................................22 Inserting Shapes...............................................................................................................................24 Formatting Shapes.......................................................................................................................24 Deleting Shapes...........................................................................................................................24 Layering Shapes...........................................................................................................................25 Page 2 LibreOffice series GiaKonda IT Grouping Shapes..........................................................................................................................25 Inserting Smart Art...........................................................................................................................26 Inserting Charts................................................................................................................................28 Proofing Tools (Spelling and Grammar Checks Thesaurus)..................................................................29 Spelling Checks................................................................................................................................29 Autocorrect and automatic spell checking.......................................................................................29 The Spelling and Grammar dialog box.............................................................................................30 Grammar Check...............................................................................................................................30 Thesaurus........................................................................................................................................31 Custom Dictionary...........................................................................................................................32 Tables...................................................................................................................................................33 Column width and row height.........................................................................................................33 Draw table.......................................................................................................................................34 Adding/Deleting Rows or Columns..................................................................................................34 Merging Cells...................................................................................................................................34 Deleting a table................................................................................................................................34 Mail Merge..........................................................................................................................................35 Creating a Data Source.....................................................................................................................36 Writing a Form Letter.......................................................................................................................37 Placing Merge Fields in a Writer document.....................................................................................37 Completing the Merge.....................................................................................................................38 Adding Records to a Data Source.....................................................................................................38 Labels...............................................................................................................................................39 Styles...................................................................................................................................................40 Style Sets..........................................................................................................................................40 Colours and Fonts............................................................................................................................40 Ribbon Tools........................................................................................................................................41 Useful LibreOffice Writer tricks............................................................................................................46 Create instant hyperlinks.................................................................................................................46 Use the Thesaurus...........................................................................................................................46 Take advantage of autocomplete.....................................................................................................46 Know the keyboard shortcuts..........................................................................................................46 Protect your templates....................................................................................................................47 Create a table of contents................................................................................................................47